A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 

 opvis TTOLOS, Hesych. Probably for en-ox//-, or else 



'EPYGPO'nOYZ. In Ar. Av. 303, usually translated Redshank, which 

 bird, Totanus cah'dn's, L., is common in Greece in winter. 

 Used as an epithet of WXeia, Arist. H. A. v. 13, 544 b. 



'EPQrA'l* pa>8i6s, Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



'EPflAIO'l (polo's-, Hippon. 59, ap. Etym. M. Also c'&oXtor, Hesych.) 



A Heron, L. ardea ; etym. dub. 



Various species are mentioned : 6 Tre'XXor, the common Heron, Ardea 

 cinerea, L. ; 6 XeuKor, the Egret, A. alba and A. gazetta ; 6 da-rtpias 

 Ka\., A. (Botaurus) stellaris, L., the Bittern; Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609 b ; 

 cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 8 corn/ avrutv yevrj p.vpia' 01 /nev yap (Spa^els T' etat 

 Kal XeuKoi, aXXoi 6e TToiKt'Xot Kai p.ei^ovS } p.aoL S* eWpot, Kai rots' fj,ev OVK 

 <TTIV eVi TTJS Ke(j)a\rjs 7r\6K(ip,os, a\\ois 8' &(nr(p ns /SoCTrpu^o? aTT^eop^Tai. 

 Plin. x. 60 (79). 



The above identifications of TreXXos and dorepms (q. v.) are doubtful : 

 the same words occur in relation to one another as proper names in 

 Apoll. Rh. i. 176; cf. Pott in Lazarus and Stemthal's Zeitschrift, xiv. 

 P- 43- 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b Trepi ras \ip,vas Kai TOVS Trora/zou? /Storeuft. 

 Ael. H. N. v. 35, x. 5 oo-rpea c<r6i*iv Seivos eari (?) ; cf. Pint. Sol. Anim. x. 

 (Mor. 9670). Its flight described, Arist. De Inc. 10, 710 a, fr. 241, 

 1522 a. 



Mentioned also Ar. Av. 886, 1142. With ep. fj.aKpoKap.rrv\avxfvfs, 

 Epich. 49, ap. Athen. ix. 398 D. 



Myth and Legend. Sent by Athene, to Odysseus and Diomede, 

 as a favourable augury, II. x. 274. Here from the nocturnal appearance 

 of the bird and its loud cry, Netolicka (Naturh. a. Homer p. 10) and 

 others suggest the Night-Heron, Ardea Nycticorax, L., which is 

 abundant in the Troad ; cf. Hippon. 1. c. Kve<palo$ eXd&v p'o>8i&> Karrjv- 

 Xio-drjv. In II. x. 275 there is an alternative reading ire\\ov 'Adqrau? 

 (Zopyrus, De Mileto Cond. iv (Schol. Venet.), cf. Groshans, Prodr. Faun, 

 pp. 15, 16, Buchholz p. 119; for a discussion of important Scholia on 

 this passage, and for notes on e'padufc in general, see J. G. Schneider, 

 in Arist. vol. iv. pp. 45-47; vide s. v. ireXXos). See also s. v. d^oirata. 



The Heron as a symbol of Athene on coins of Ambracia and Corinth 

 (Imh.-Bl. and K. p. 38, pi. vi). Said also to be sacred to Aphrodite, 

 Etym. M. A bird of good omen, Ael. x. 37, Plut. Mor. 405 D, especially 

 the White Heron, Plin. xi. 37. A weather-prophet, Arat. Phaen. 913, 

 972, Athen. viii. 332 E (where Casaub. reads eXwpio?), Ael.vii-7, Theophr. 

 De Sign. i. 18, ii. 28, Virg. Georg. i. 363, Lucan, v. 553, Cic. Div. i. 8, 

 Callim. s. v. SUTTTTJS ; hence beloved of men, Dion. De Avib. ii. 8. 



